Might this maybe be their next "Macaca" moment ????? Especially if we keep the visibility high ??? 

Who needs much more of a game plan than the stuff they keep handing our campaigns to run with?? Obviously we have to offer the facts and fiscally based alternative with "real" plans attached or we will look incompetent too..... But as a party we have the opportunity being presented to us to show a clear vision, or for at least some parts, of a very muddy subject that is critical to all our voters.

The smoke screens of ?Half-truths? and GOP ?Staying on message? sound bytes will no doubt start soon enough, but we have the ultimate weapon to get out there with NOW while it is starting rather than waiting until the ?October Surprise? times a few months from now?.

Listen up if Macaca is such a bad word why do you all insiste on repeating it all the f'n time.  Or is the dirty little secret that you actually know what it means "Ma Cacca" mother's uncle but you and your leftist screw balls have distorted that to what you want it to mean...

Did you read Sunday's Washington Post looks like Gerry Connolly has some serious ethical cahllengegs and is morally bankrupt, he is also way too chummy wiht Tom Davis and his wife the Dragonwoman Jeanmarrie Davis...

Here is a link to it if you haven't seen it yethttp://www.washingto...

The "Macaca" incident is now in political text books at the college level..... the strategy (or lack of one) that allowed it to succeed for the Webb campaign is now studied not for the meaning or the word itself, but for the self-destruction that followed the Allen Campaign from that point on and the "empowerment" it gave the next level of critics, not to mention the status with the press who smelled blood in the water.

from the computer Mr. Wadhams, let it go.

a clusterf--- Virginia politics is. What a bunch of clowns.

Look the NVTA is populated by Dems also.  Who is Chair of this group? 

Are we the taxpayers in trouble.....you better believe it.

of a minuscle one-quarter of one percent was my suggestion from the beginning. It hits everyone, including drive-through outlanders, will raise the required millions (billions), is a steady and reliable source of a funding stream which can be bonded, and will have minimal impact on the payer (probably won't even be noticed).

When I repeatedly brought a sales tax up, I was told "it was never on the table," and "the House Republicans will never allow it." I know, I know, it could turn into a slush fund used for everything but transportation in Northern Virginia, BUT, the legislation could structure it so that what's raised in Northern Virginia stays in Northern Virginia and never spends a nanosecond in Richmond. If we work on it, we can control it.  I prefer sales tax to gasoline tax, by the way, because that stream of funding might not be so steady as cars become more fuel-efficient. 

If anti-tax republicans cry crocodile tears about the impact on poor working class drivers of a quarter of a percent sales tax, then the legislation should also include a tax rebate for those with incomes below a certain cutoff level.

So crucify me.

Don't need no stinkin' taxes!

Stay tune Leftofcenter.  Even while you blog, the Board was preparing documents that will put in place the method for raising new taxes.....

That is the part that we don't hear about.  Hundreds of millions dollars raised from taxes.  The money collected will then be used to bond out for more money.  We are the ones who pay..................This is especially annoying as a large part of the take will be used to pay for the rail.  While we pay higher tolls, the Tysons developers (Connolly's cheerleading group) will rake in the $$$$$.  I guess we can be proud that a portion of those $$$$$ will go to support Connolly's bid for Congress. 

no stinkin' taxes---? Because you're not going anywhere now anytime soon? Just a stick-in-the-mud?

Gosh, I genuinely never have heard that Ma Cacca means "mother's uncle".  Now it all makes so much more sense.  I never knew that J.R. Sidarth was Allen's mother's uncle.  That clears it all up.  Wonder why Allen just didn't explain that to us, it could have saved him a lot of trouble.

But it's S.R. Sidarth, not J.R.  Wrong uncle? :)

bwwwwhahahhahaaaaaaa

Just prior to the deadline, Democrat Clyde Matthews has stood up to take on the incumbent Republican Speaker Bill Howell in VA-28.  As you can tell from a website comparison the campaign needs some IT help ... want to volunteer your skills to make a real difference?  Let me know shawn@virginiadem.com

http://www.clydematt...

http://billhowell.us...

cracks me up.  The anti-tax cowards in Richmond devised a way to tax people without doing it themselves and to dump the taxation blame on the local (Loudoun) Republicans, who in turn recoiled in horror at the thought that they are stuck holding the "tax and spend" bag.  So the Loudoun County BOS sues so they can keep their own anti-tax status alive.  LOL.

me a headache it's so f---ed up.

PBS History Detectives Monday night had a marvelous piece that mentioned Thomas Jefferson's proposal to establish public education in Virginia when he was governor of the commonwealth, years before he was president. It was shot down by the General Assembly, which refused to raise the tax it would have required. Not a lot changed in 250 years.